Nameless Death looked around the place.
The more he saw, the more confused he became.
Each room was locked from inside. He tried to go inside, but a force of repulsion threw him back.
"What...?"
Nameless Death tried to enter the locked rooms again.
"I can’t enter these rooms."
That simply meant one thing. The law dictating this ’place’ was so powerful that even he, with an astral projection body, couldn’t go everywhere he wished.
"What a strange place."
This confirmed a few things.
END was important to him— to Neo.
The value he gave to END meant that this Cosmos treated it with the highest value.
It was creating and strengthening END before anything else, as such it had surpassed what Nameless Death could access with his current body.
"I should look around. Maybe I will find some clues."
He flew through the corridors for several days. Each corridor seemed to stretch into infinity, and at equal intervals — roughly 15 minutes distance at his current speed — a horizontal and a vertical corridor would intersect.
It was only after a month of search that he finally encountered an open room.
This time, he was able to enter it easily.
"Why is this room different?"
He saw a being wearing a shadowy cloak. Peeking inside the cloak, all he saw was darkness.
"This guy has no physical body."
"Hmm, given the place and his looks, he must be a Grim Reaper."
The Grim Reaper stayed motionless for the weeks that Nameless Death observed him.
The discovery led him to think that Grim Reapers here were natural phenomena like the flow of air, or rising of the sun instead of beings with will.
"When will this guy move?"
Nameless Death continued his observation. It took roughly 43 days before the Grim Reaper suddenly moved.
Its body twitched and it stood up.
Then, it opened a door.
A man wearing white clothes was on the ground on all fours.
"W-what is happening here? I was sure I died and then- urk!!!" The man’s face twisted in pain. He shouted.
It took him several minutes to calm down. By the time it happened, he was panting heavily.
"I... who am I?" the man muttered. "I don’t remember anything."
"Welcome, O Young One." The Grim Reaper finally spoke.
The man raised his head to look at him. Despite seeing such an otherworldly being, the man was not feeling afraid due to unknown reasons.
"Who are you?"
"Your guide," the Grim Reaper said. "Now, please follow us."
The man entered the room at the Grim Reaper’s instruction.
He sat on the bed.
The last thing he heard was the voice of the Grim Reaper.
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